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Geography. Country mini study.
THAILAND.  Capital city:Bangkok. Population:65,444,371. Location:Bordering the the Adaman sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Area:Total of 514,000 square kms and the coastline is 3219 square kms. Climate:Tropical,rainy,warm,cloudy and the Southeast Monsoon.

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 Neighboring countries:Cambodia,Laos,Malaysia and Myanmar/Burma. Famous people:Samak Sundaravej/Prime minister and King Phumiphon Adunyadet. Historical icons/structures:Elephants and Lockheed RTAF (royal Thai air force) museum. Religion:Buddhist, Muslim. Land regions:The mountainous north,the Khorat plateau,the central plain and the southern peninsula. Environmental issues:Air pollution, water pollution ,deforestation and wildlife populations threatened. Natural resources:Tin,rubber,natural gas,tungsten,tantalum,timber,lead,fish,gypsum,lignite, fluorite and arable land. Land use:Arable land= 27.54%, permanent crops=6.93% and other =65.53%. Ethnic groups:Thai=75%, Chinese=14% and other = 11%. Facts:They respect there ancestors, The Thai greeting is called the Wai, Thai people like kick boxing and soccer,The army in Thai are told how to do kick boxing, touching someones head or walking over food is considered insulting,you are not aloud to slide books over tables or put books on the ground,the main food is rice,Thailand is the biggest rice exporter in the world,there is over 5000 varieties of rice preserved in the international rice research institute (IRRI), Thai people can speak a lot of languages ,Thailand is the largest news paper market in Southeast Asia, Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school, almost 95% of Thailand's population is of the Theravada school Buddhism. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country that has been taken over by European power. The army,navy and air force of Thailand totals over 300,000 people.

= = = = === COUNTRY STUDY (THINKING HATS). ===

Red: I feel that I have done a good job about finding facts and presenting them to the class. I think I found out everything I was supposed to get.  White: I found out that a national icon is the elephant the capital city is Bangkok the religion is Buddhist a famous person is Samak Sundaravej a national structure is the lockheed R.T.A.F museum. Black: The negative thing about Thailand is that it is run by the army. Yellow: The positive thing about Thailand is it has heaps of rice. <span style="color: rgb(10, 209, 29)">Green:<span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 57)">   <span style="color: rgb(61, 147, 57)">I don't think that China should be a communist country so i think we should tell Chinas government that China should be a Democratic country. <span style="color: rgb(38, 54, 237)"><span style="color: rgb(24, 21, 213)"><span style="color: rgb(24, 55, 226)">Blue: <span style="color: rgb(16, 29, 229)"><span style="color: rgb(24, 21, 213)">My justified opion about my what ive found out is that ive collected anough facts for my country study to be good.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(242, 28, 28)">Debate: Should the 2008 Olympics be held in China.
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(242, 28, 28)"> We did our debates on should China host the 2008 Olympics. When we were getting our teams put together by Mrs Stevens I was hoping that I could be in a negative team and as luck had it I was put in a negative team with Renske, Lewis and myself. Renske was away on the day we did our debates so we had Tig instead. Tig was the leader I was second speaker and Lewis was third speaker. I talked about pollution and human rights. I think I got anough facts to make my bit good. This is what I found out....

China is **//still//** polluting to the **//max//** and even though some people may think otherwise it is true. China has a lot of algae and did you know that China is the most air polluting country in the world. If you breath some of Beijing's air it is equivalent to smoking **//70 cigarettes//** a day. Competers are getting sick and vommiting out green gunk. **//__Now thats disgusting__//.**

They still have no human rights and you are not allowed to hold banners or support your team. People are getting imprisoned because they are not moving from their house so that the goverment can smash your poor house into smitherings just cause they dont like the sight of it. The goverment only wants you to see what they want you to see.

Some poor protester got ran over by a military tank and thats not cool or funny. So my conclusion for this debate is that the Olympics has just made it __**worse.**__ So pretty much my answer to should China host the 2008 Olympics is a big, solid **//__NO!__//**.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(229, 42, 42)"> WALT:
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(229, 42, 42)"> We are learning to recognize the different roles in an organization and how they overlap.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(218, 16, 16)">ACTIVE COUNCILS
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(215, 25, 25)">Our local council is called S.W.D.C. Our school is in the South Wairarapa district. Our Mayor is Adrienne Staples. Our representative is Mrs Napier. Mr Field works for Greater Wellington Regional Council and his job is to make Wellington and the Wairarapa look better. Our Council made the new town hall a library as well and it looks flash and attracts a lot of tourists.

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